Summary: When a competitive new video game sweeps New York, Donna will do anything to reach rank No. 1.
In the Crete Fortress, Donna was watching a trailer for a competitive video game on her tablet inside the arcade room.
"Battle through the highest rank to reach level 100 as your own customized mecha avatar!" A male voice announced.
The video game trailer showed two mecha characters battling each other until the pink mecha defeated the blue mecha with a swift, rapid uppercuts. The trailer next showed the black stylized logo for a video game that named The Mecha Strike.
"The Mecha Strike! Download now!"
Donna gasped with sparking eyes in awe.
"I gonna have it!" Donna grinned widely.
Donna immediately downloaded the video game onto the TV that was successfully loaded within seconds.
"Yes!" Donna cheered. She moved her index finger in a circle and pointed her magic to levitate her purple game controller in her hands. "Time to play!"
As Donna snapped her fingers to summon her favorite snacks and sodas, she instantly started playing the video game for hours.
The next morning, Ella, Lee, and Ellie dressed up in their Galaxina Starforce attire to visit a fan convention. Ella wore a small sleeveless red cropped top, red mini-skirt, and red knee-high boots. Lee wore a small sleeveless blue cropped top, blue mini-skirt, and blue knee-high boots. And Ellie wore a small sleeveless orange cropped top, orange mini-skirt, and orange knee-high boots.
Ella, Lee, and Ellie then stood behind Donna, who has been gaming the whole night inside the arcade room. They looked to watch Donna fighting a male-looking mecha avatar and ranked herself into level 40. Donna's mecha avatar was a female humanoid character. Her whole entire body has dark purple with lighter purple armor around her shoulders, torso, arms, and legs. She also has long purple hair pulled back in long braided pigtails and jade green eyes.
"Uh, Donna, have you been playing all night?" Ella asked with an astonish look on her face.
"Yes, all night. Don't stop me." Donna replied quickly as she kept focusing on the TV. "I gotta make it to level 100!"
"Well, let's get dressed!" Lee said as she placed her hands on her hips. "We're gonna be late to Fan-Con and we'll not missing out on the Galaxina Starforce cosplayers. It took three hours to design our costumes."
"I'll meet you girls there. Just let me beat a few losers to level up!" Donna said.
"Whoa, you okay, Donna?" Ellie asked concernedly. "Because the Donna I know would never miss out on Fan-Con. Even your favorite character Ouroboros is gonna be there."
"Just go without me!" Donna snapped.
Lee and Ellie jumped onto Ella's arms in alarm from Donna's sudden outburst. They are starting to get worried about their sister as she seemed to have no interest in the planned visit to the convention.
As Donna went back to her game, her sisters glanced at each other with worried face and bolted out of the arcade room.
Few hours later, Donna kept playing Mecha Strike. She easily defeated three mecha avatars with super combos and ranked level 70.
"Oh yeah! Triple victory is mine...again!" Donna grinned confidently.
Then, the video game showed Donna a pop-up ad on the screen.
"Purplenerd9000, you are qualified for a sweet upgrade!" A pop-up ad announced. "Spend your mecha points now!"
"Oh yes! I gonna have it!" Donna beamed. She pressed a button to click the pop-up ad, but she realized that she doesn't have enough points. "Oh great. I can't get the upgrade."
Donna then formed a sly smile on her face.
"But I have ways to get money." Donna said.
Donna moved her index finger in a circle and pointed her magic to conjure three colored rectangular cases in the air. Three cases then fell onto Donna's lap and she opened them up to stare at all of the money inside.
Later that day, Ella, Lee, and Ellie returned back from the fan convention as they began chatting about their shared experiences with excitement.
"Baby, what a blast!" Ella hollered. "Now that's the fan con that I'll never forget."
"I still can't believe Donna's missing out all the fun, but I did got her a Galaxina Starforce figure." Ella said.
"And I still can't believe everyone recognized us from that time square dance off video!" Lee grinned. "Not only we signed their autographs and took pictures, but few girls were green with envy when they saw my design of our costumes!"
Ellie, Ella, and Lee chatted past the arcade room until they quickly looked inside to find Donna still gaming in front of TV. She was now level 90 and wore a lumberjack outfit.
"Yes! I'm almost close!" Donna cheered excitedly as she's now on level 95 on the screen. "Purplenerd9000 is in the lead!"
Ella stood in front of Donna, who doesn't seem to notice her older sister and moved her head to see the TV screen.
"Uh, Donna, why are you dressed up like a lumberjack?" Ella asked with a raised eyebrow.
"It's a new upgrade I unlocked." Donna replied with a confident smile. "Not many have..."
Lee and Ellie moved behind Donna as they inspected her attire.
"And the real question is how were you able to afford that gear?" Lee questioned.
Donna's eyes widened wide at Lee's question.
"Uh, well..." Donna responded nervously.
Donna simply pointed her finger at three empty cases, making her three sisters look at them with horror gasps.
"You stole our allowances?!" Ellie shouted with a twitch eyebrow. She looked back at Donna with gritted teeth as Donna paid no attention to her youngest sister's unstable anger. "WE SPENT MOST OF OUR LIVES SAVING OUR MONEY AND YOU DARE GOT SOME NERVES TO SPENT IT ON SOME STUPID GAME!"
Ellie lunged at Donna, but Ella and Lee held their youngest sister back as they started pulling the struggling Ellie away out of the arcade room.
"Chill, Ellie. She's not worth it." Lee said calmly.
"She just stole our money allowances and you're telling me she's not worth it?!" Ellie yelled with a crazed smile. "Oh no! She's gonna pay! I'll trap her to the Netherworld for all eternity if I have to!"
"Lee's right, Ellie." Ella said as she placed her hands on her hips. "We need to find a way to snap Donna out of her obsessive gaming and fast."
Meanwhile, Donna had reached level 99 and encountered another player that happened to be the same level as her. The mecha avatar was a male humanoid character. His whole entire body was black with cowboy-like hat, a white skull helmet, and grey eyes.
"Purplenerd9000? Donna, is that you?" Casey exclaimed in surprise.
"Casey?!" Donna cried. She slowly formed a wide, sinister smile on her face. "Well, well, Skull Lord. Nothing will stop me from achieving level hundred! Not even you!"
"We'll see about that!" Casey said.
"Final Battle!" The announcer hollered.
As the final mecha battle began, Casey unleashed Skullgeist Pulse. His mecha avatar formed six skulls in front of himself and fired a beam of black energy from each skull at Donna's mecha avatar that brought half health on her health bar. Donna striked back with Gyro Drive Screw. Her mecha avatar flipped upside down and rapidly rotated her body to slice Casey's mecha avatar that brought him halfway on his health bar. Casey retaliated with Phantom Cut and then unleashed Phantom Boost. His mecha avatar swung his arms repeatedly to release multiple light gray crescent blades from his hands towards Donna's mecha avatar and then created a glowing light gray ball of electric energy in between his hands to fire it at her, which was affecting Donna's health bar in a worse rate.
"Oh no, you don't!" Donna said with a devilish grin. "I've been saving those move for last."
Donna counterattacked with Delta Heart Cannon. Her mecha avatar hovered in the air and opened up her heart from her chest to fire a huge purple laser that annihilated Casey's mecha avatar out of the battle.
"Purplenerd9000 wins!" The announcer boomed.
Casey stared at the game over screen with a twitching eye as Ekron was sleeping near him.
"How was she able to do that?!" Casey cried.
Back in the Crete Fortress, Donna stood up and began dancing around the arcade room.
"Yes! I did it!" Donna cheered proudly. "Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Level hundred! That's me!"
"Purplenerd9000, you've unlocked the final exclusive item!" The announcer spoke.
"All mine!" Donna grinned with shining eyes as she stared back at the TV screen.
Ella, Ellie, and Lee gathered around the living room as they started read all the articles they could find on the internet in order to help Donna.
"Found it." Ella said. "An article on how to treat Recreational Game Obsession Mania and it says to create a more stable home and/or outside environment."
"I know." Ellie said. "We should snap Donna out of her gaming with that free pizza special coupon at Bro's Pizza."
"That might work." Lee said.
Lee, Ella, and Ellie sped into the arcade room.
"Hey, Donna, there's a pizza special at..." Lee spoke. Her eyes widened wide when she saw a black egg chair that Donna was sitting in. "Whoa, now where did you get that?"
"I unlocked it." Donna replied. "And now I'm finally level 100, I got a whole new world to conquer!"
"Not this time!" Ella said. She spun the chair around that made Donna face her older sister. "Donna, we got a once of a lifetime special at Bro's Pizza and we need you now."
"And I will be right there." Donna said casually as she turned back to the game. "I promise. Right after I finished this game."
"Oh no, you don't...!" Ella said.
Then suddenly, Ella was transformed into a medium-sized red energy orb and vanished in a pixelating flash.
"Huh?" Lee and Ellie said in deep confusion.
Then, Lee and Ellie were transformed into medium-sized blue and orange energy orbs before vanishing in a pixelating flash as well.
Just then, three energy orbs reappeared into a life-sized video game dimension as Ella, Ellie, and Lee stood on the green grids on the floor as they looked around at the dark glittery room that has several statues of the mecha avatar champion lined on the sides of the place.
"Whoa." Ella gasped in awe.
"Are we inside a video game?" Ellie wondered with sparkling eyes.
"And look at us!" Lee beamed as she was looking at her limbs and her entire body. "We look awesome!"
Ella and Ellie looked down at their bodies as humanoid mecha characters. Ella's body has dark red with lighter red armor around her shoulders, torso, arms, and legs. She also has thick wavy red hair and bright green eyes. Ellie's body has dark orange with lighter orange armor around her shoulders, torso, arms, and legs. She also has medium-length orange hair tied in two pigtails and teal green eyes. Lee's body has dark blue with lighter blue armor around her shoulders, torso, arms, and legs. She also has long blue pulled back into a high ponytail and lime green eyes.
"Cool." Ella said. "But why does this looks so familiar?"
Ella, Ellie, and Lee then realized that they are not alone. Joining them was a mysterious female humanoid mecha avatar sitting in front of a large golden throne standing on a raised platform in the center of the circular room. The mecha avatar stood up from the throne chair and walked down the big golden staircase towards the trio.
"You three are challenged by the mecha avatar champion!" The announcer bellowed.
The mecha avatar cracked her knuckles in preparation and flipped upside down to rotate her body at the trio at rapid speed.
"Incoming!" Ella screamed.
Ella, Ellie, and Lee moved out of the way that made the mecha avatar champion miss her attack. The mecha avatar champion landed on her feet and executed a barrage of violet missiles into the air that rained down upon the trio, who were avoiding the missiles as fast as they can.
"Ellie, see if you get close to the health bar and find out who's playing this character!" Ella shouted to Ellie. "Lee and I will take her on!"
"Roger that!" Ellie said with a nod.
Ellie charged forward and rocketed off into the air. The mecha avatar champion noticed her and went sprinting after Ellie. But Lee jumped in front of her and fired a large blue spade-shaped energy from both of her hands that sent the mecha avatar champion flying down to the ground. As the mecha avatar champion stood up, Ella fired a large red laser at her from both of her eyes.
Ellie flew up into the air and landed on the health bar. Her eyes widened wide as she looked down to read the name placed below the health bar.
"What?! No way!" Ellie exclaimed in shock. "Purplenerd9000! Are you kidding me?!"
Back in the Crete Fortress, Donna was still playing the game with her mecha avatar. But this time, her mecha avatar was surrounded by three new mecha avatars that shared the same colors as her sisters.
"Oh no, you don't!" Donna said with an insane grin. "I'll give those players credit for their mecha avatar style, but they're ruining my level 100 mecha!"
Phantom strolled into the arcade room and placed a can of grape soda down next to Donna.
"Here's your soda, Donatella." Phantom said.
"Thanks, Phantom." Donna said.
Phantom turned around to exit the arcade room.
"Congratulations on reaching level hundred! Keep smashing new players and don't lose your rank." The game announced.
"As if! No one can stop me from taking my number one rank!" Donna grinned wildly as she stared closely at the TV screen.
Ellie jumped off the health bar and landed between Lee and Ella.
"It's Donna! That mecha avatar champion is being controlled by her!" Ellie cried.
"Say what?" Ella exclaimed.
"You mean to tell us this robo champion is Donna?" Lee said with a confuse eyebrow. "I think she have finally reached rank one in this game, but that doesn't explain how we got here in the first place."
Donna's mecha avatar began charging forward and fired several clover-shaped spheres of purple energy continuously at the trio from her hands. But Lee stepped in front of her sisters and created a blue spherical protection field with a glowing hexagonal pattern that was strong enough to endure Donna's mecha avatar's energy spheres.
"We gotta signal Donna." Ella said.
"And how are we gonna do that?" Ellie asked. "We're video game characters. I highly doubt she'll listen to us."
"I've got it! Four words: Recreational Game Obsession Mania." Lee grinned as she looked over to her sisters.
"Great idea, Lee! And I know the right spell to use Donna's obsession against her." Ella said with a sinister smile.
Ella sat herself into a midair sitting position and closed her eyes to concentrate her magic.
"Bodiatatchimento!" Ella casted.
Ella opened her eyes with a glowing stare and her shadow materialized from herself as it soared toward the ceiling out of the video game dimension.
Ella's shadow soared out behind the TV and zoomed past through the crazed Donna. It flew towards the kitchen, where Phantom was making dinner for the mystic family. It then glided its way straight into Phantom, who closed her eyes and struggled briefly to regain control.
Then, Phantom took a deep breath and opened her eyes that were replaced by Ella's eyes.
Meanwhile, Donna growled in annoyance as her mecha avatar couldn't destroy the force field.
"It pains me to admit it, but these players are really good for me to defeat!" Donna said.
Phantom sprinted into the arcade room and stood behind the TV as she hooked several tentacles around the television that showed a video of Ella on the mini screen.
"Donna! Stop playing! We're inside the game!" Ella shouted.
"Wow, five stars for lifelikeness and writing creativity." Donna commented with a grin.
"SNAP OUT OF IT, DONNA! LEE, ELLIE, AND I ARE lNSIDE THE GAME!" Ella hollered.
Donna stared at Ella in confusion until she finally noticed that her mecha avatar in the background. She then gazed at her sisters on the mini screen that mirrored the three mecha avatar on the TV screen, which dawned on Donna that her sisters are literally inside the game.
"Oh, this can't be good!" Donna exclaimed in shock.
Donna quickly moved her index finger in a circle to concentrate her magic in a frantic manner.
"Gēmuauto!" Donna casted.
But when Donna pointed her magic at the TV screen, the spell didn't work.
"What?! I can't get my sister out of the game!" Donna cried frantically.
Suddenly, a Purple Dragon symbol appeared on the back of her chair and several wires wrapped around Donna to restrain her from moving.
"Hiya, Purplenerd9000!" A familiar female face spoke on the TV screen as two familiar boys stood in either side of her. "Or should I say Donna?"
"Kendra?" Donna cried in shock. "I should've known! I heard house arrest suits the Purple Dragons pretty well."
"Well, that doesn't mean you're getting off the hook from us that easily." Kendra said with a smirk. "You've played your part perfectly for our revenge."
"If only we can see it now. It'll be really fun watching you destroying your own sisters!" Jeremy added with a grin.
Donna's eyes widened in horror. She couldn't believe what has she done to herself and her sisters. She watched the screaming mecha avatars running away from her mecha avatar as fast as they can. But Donna couldn't break free from the wires.
"How are you guys controlling my avatar?!" Donna cried.
"We installed a self-operational AI into your mecha avatar to learn every moves from you in the game." Jace explained. "Also, I've been wanting to tell you...since the first day you and your sisters came along...I...I...wanted to say..."
"Hurry up and tell her already, Jace!" Kendra interrupts sharply.
"Okay, okay." Jace said. "Since the moment I saw you, I always love you, Donatella. There, I've said it. Oh well, have fun saving your sisters. Bye."
Then, the screen went off that left the other screen showing Donna's sisters running away from her mecha avatar.
Donna's mecha avatar started firing purple lasers at Ellie, Ella, and Lee from both of her eyes before teleporting right in front of them.
"Kurōnkopī!" Lee casted as she quickly waved her hand back.
Lee brought her magic forward and produced several copies of herself to surround Donna's mecha avatar. Before all the Lee copies can strike an all-out attack, Donna's mecha avatar slammed her hands to the ground and unleashed a purole electrical current to electrocute the Lee copies into nothingness. Ella, Lee, and Ellie then jumped in the air as they summoned magic circles and barraged Donna's mecha avatar with energy bolts.
As Ella, Lee, and Ellie landed safely, Donna's mecha avatar recovered and unleashed a blast of purple electricity from her hands onto the ground that electrocuted them, making the trio scream in unbearable pain.
"Donna, please stop this!" Lee called out. "I don't know how much we can take!"
Donna kept struggling to break free from the wires, so she can save her sisters from her mecha avatar. She took a deep breath and her eyes glowed in purple light as her magic engulfed the wires in purple magical energy and destroyed them in pieces that set her free in the process.
"Yes!" Donna cheered.
Donna made her way over to the TV and moved her index finger rapidly in a circle.
"Time to rescue my sisters." Donna said with a bold look on her face.
Donna pointed her magic at herself and transformed into a medium-sized purple energy orb as it flew straight into the TV screen.
Meanwhile, Donna's mecha avatar raised her hand in the air as she prepared to throw another violent blow. But the mecha avatar started glitching and split herself into two. Ella, Ellie, and Lee turned to see Donna taking control her mecha avatar as her own.
"Girls!" Donna shouted with a concern tone in her voice as she ran up to her sisters. "Are you okay?"
"Other than being almost toasted by your killing mecha robot, yeah we're okay." Lee replied as she placed her hands on her hips.
"Uh, guys!" Ellie shouted as she pointed her finger frantically. "Killer mecha robot's waking up!"
Donna, Lee, and Ella collectively followed Ellie's finger as they watched the dark half of Donna's mecha avatar rising up above them. Her whole entire body has dark black-purple with black armor around her shoulders, torso, arms, and legs. She also has long darker purple hair pulled back in long braided pigtails and jade green cat-like eyes.
"O! M! G!" Ella and Lee exclaimed with jaw-dropping expressions.
"What do we do now?" Ella cried.
"We finish the game! Let's go!" Donna replied.
The dark mecha avatar drew cannons from her arms and her back as she started firing huge dark purple lasers at the Lotus Ninjas, who immediately scattered out of the way. They knocked the dark mecha avatar relentlessly around the field with a series of powerful blows: Ellie dashed forward and unleashed a flurry of berserk orange psychic energized punches and flips. Ella delivered a barrage of vertical spinning red psychic energized kicks while rising into air. Lee leaped upwards and delivered blue psychic energized kicks while spinning repeatedly. And finally, Donna telekinetically summoned numerous orbs of purple energy to surround her and then launched them in different directions one by one to finish her dark mecha avatar off.
The dark mecha avatar fell backwards onto the ground and exploded herself to various pieces.
Then, the Lotus Ninjas transformed into four medium-sized energy orbs and and vanished in a pixelating flash.
The Lotus Ninjas were back in the real world.
"Finally, we're back!" Ella said with a heavy sigh.
"Now, you better pay us back all the money you spent, Donna!" Ellie said firmly.
Donna suddenly hugged her sisters, leaving them in a state of confusion.
"Oh, I'm so glad you girls are safe. I promise I'll definitely pay you all back." Donna said sincerely. "I'm so sorry for everything I've done. I will never let my gaming obsession get in the way of..."
Donna then saw an ad for a Mecha Strike sequel on the TV screen.
"No way! Mecha Strike 2!" Donna exclaimed with sparkling eyes. She pushed her sisters aside and ran up to the television screen. "I gotta have it!"
Ellie, Ella, and Lee gave Donna dangerous looks on their faces.